Roy L. Pickering Jr.

Quotes

• “If Audrey sensed what he was contemplating, her silence did not let on. He turned from the window and found her looking ...”
• “On occasion he would think back to the fiercest passion it had been his pleasure to experience and reflect on what might...”
• “A tightrope walker uncertain if he could make it to the other side probably would not. A race car driver wondering if he...”
• “It was his experience that life worked under the same guidelines as a capitalistic society. In order to get what you wan...”
• “Was love ever easy for anyone? If less complicated, would this make it less appreciated? Perhaps love was difficult for ...”
• “On occasion we stumble upon what seems to be a truth. Compared to the surrounding blackness, it sparkles and dazzles our...”
• “There were many tomorrows to be lived through his children. He could only hope that they would face them more courageous...”
• “...forever meant different things to people at different times. They could imagine what infinity looked and felt like as...”
• “His fierce appreciation of female beauty, the unrelenting desire he felt for their company, the pleasure he both derived...”
• “Time had taught him that whether his sins were pardoned or left unforgiven, they would remain committed. Tomorrow he wou...”
• “It was almost as if she had willed him into existence, into standing before her at the precise moment she was willing to...”
• “When he spoke of love, it was in the manner of someone who can recite a phrase in a foreign language but has no idea wha...”
• “He now realized that right and wrong were intertwined notions. His arms could not differentiate between just and unjust ...”
• “Was she happy? She thought – yes, reasonably so. Then again, what was happiness but the vast terrain between ecstasy and...”
• “And although he recognized that tenderness was not the same as passion, and certainly not equivalent to love, for now it...”
• “Nothing felt better to him than the act of waiting for her. As long as he believed it wasn’t in vain, he was able to jus...”
• “Once you break someone’s heart, you are forever its master.”